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The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

In the course of WWII, a very young boy and his family move to the concentration camp with their commandant father. Feeling caged he makes an unlikely friendship that is oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.
Keywords:  #Amber Beattie #Asa Butterfield #David Thewlis #Jack Scanlon #Mark Herman #The Boy In The Striped Pajamas #Vera Farmiga
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 14, 2008
Young Scanlon and Butterfield are scathingly effective, never overplaying their roles.
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Time Out Sydney
April 24, 2009
This writer can't remember witnessing a harder-hitting kids' movie denouement than the one that closes this microcosm of middle-class German family life in WWII.
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Cinemania
July 12, 2012
Not without its qualities, the movie ultimately does a disservice to the very people it purports to represent.
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Orlando Sentinel
May 13, 2009
The result isn't a deep film, but rather a profound one.
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Sydney Morning Herald
May 01, 2009
We are left in no doubt about the brutality of what's going on there but it's almost entirely off-screen. Still, the film is terribly confronting.
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Arizona Republic
November 13, 2008
Although it's told from the perspective of a child, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is as shattering as any film about the Holocaust could be, perhaps more so.
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Times-Picayune
August 14, 2009
Built upon a powerful but gimmicky end, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas would make a fine short. As a full-length feature, though, the pajamas wear thin quickly.
Detroit News
November 14, 2008
In truth, the film is sure to stop the hearts of many who see it. There may indeed be hope in hell, but better to avoid hell altogether.
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Boston Globe
November 14, 2008
Because its gaze is so level and so unyielding, it stands as one of the better dramatic films made on this subject (although it's not nearly as fine as Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, in which the camps remain a distant abstraction).
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MovieTime, ABC Radio National
April 24, 2009
Much of the film depends on our ability to suspend disbelief and see the world as Bruno sees it. It has a finale designed to shock.
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Digital Spy
July 14, 2011
A film dealing with the Holocaust really should be a little less clumsily executed, manipulative and contrived than this.
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Time Out
November 17, 2011
[Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience.
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